ACT scores drop nationally and in Arkansas

With the pandemic shouldering the blame, the ACT announced a drop in the average national score on the ACT check for school admission for the category of 2022, a median that additionally dropped in Arkansas.

The nationwide common was 19.8 on a 36-point scale, the primary time the common dropped beneath 20 since 1991.

In Arkansas, the place most college students take the ACT, the common dropped from 19 in each 2020 and 2021 to 18.8. Here’s the full report.

(One other method to take a look at that rating: On common the Arkansas Class of 2022 fell beneath the 19 essential to qualify for a lottery scholarship, additional contributing to the discriminatory nature of the lottery scholarship awards, which disproportionately go to white and better earnings college students.)

In Arkansas, the place 93 p.c of the category took the check, college students fell wanting benchmarks that supposedly point out a chance of school success in all topic areas — English, math, studying and science. Right here’s a chart ordered in the way in which ACT thinks is the perfect type of comparability:

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